Check out our list of the best knifemaking quotes and sayings on the Directness EDC reviews website. Includes quotes about making knives, blades made by hand or machine, and being a knifemaker. The making knives quotations are mostly by notable knife enthusiasts and those in the knife industry.
Famous KnifeMaking Quotes
We’re not just making pretty pictures and coming out with them. We’re still making reliable high performance with great quality and materials, good designs, good designers.
Eric Glesser
Usually there’s a purpose in mind when we create most of the product.
Eric Glesser
We’re working on hundreds of different knives at any given time. The knife market is huge. It goes from little knives to big knives and all purposes in between.
Eric Glesser
In Japan they’re very good at back locks. We consider ourselves as making some of the best back locks in the world. For China they bring a tremendous value to the market if you can do it correctly. For Italy you can get materials, European materials, and they’re great at slip joints. And for America we have our capabilities. So there’s a lot of diversity in there.
Eric Glesser
We’re making a material (product) that saves lives and can be dangerous if used improperly or if it fails it can be dangerous, and so we take our product line very seriously for what we’re delivering.
Eric Glesser
In our lightweights we’ll bring a very high performance steel like a 110V for example, and put it into a lightweight handle. This is going to give you a less expensive knife that’s going to perform very well, at a lower cost. Sometimes around the office we joke about, you know, we’re putting a Ferrari engine in a little inexpensive car, but that’s what you’re getting.
Eric Glesser
Usually the different factories and the different locations around the world have different skills and abilities. Some may be good at this, some may be good at something else, some may work with a material that others don’t. There’s no two factories that are created equal.
Eric Glesser
I’ll start with pencil and paper, CAD it, make plastic models with Peter from CAD drawings, often for months until I get as close as I can at the time to my “idea”. Like carving an elephant; take a piece of material and cut away everything that isn’t elephant. Once the design is close to it’s “pure form”, I’ll refine the materials based on the original idea and run with it. I don’t have the “eye” of a (Bob) Lum, so appearance plays little in the fished outcome.
Sal Glesser
My designs begin with an “idea”, hard to put into words. The final design says it better than words can. I also refine that design (idea) over time to make it closer to the pure form originally envisioned.
Sal Glesser
Performance is our primary focus. We’re not making pretty knives. We’re making knives that cut well for a long time. Reliable, high-performance is our marketing pitch. A lot of our market is military, law enforcement, firemen and other people who actually depend upon a knife.
Sal Glesser
I don’t think that one (knife design) makes me more proud than another. We work on all of them until we’re satisfied that the model serves the intended purpose and is as good as we can make it. When we learn of changes or improvements, we do those as well.. to all of them.
Sal Glesser
I learned how to open knives with one hand when I was young and I thought it would be really nice if we could create a knife that would open with one hand, without any springs or buttons. So we started out by adding things to a blade.. studs and little discs and things that you could use. But they always got in the way of sharpening. So then we started removing things from the blade. We started out by roughing up the blades so you could get some traction. And then we created a little dip in the blade so you could open it. A dip on both sides became a hole.
Sal Glesser
We don’t plan to pin our knives or make it impossible for you to take them apart. We will continually try to make them stronger so if you do take them apart, it will be more difficult to damage them.
Sal Glesser
I made my first knife in November 1991 and have continued the craft since.
Ken Onion
I’m just one of those very fortunate people that get an opportunity to do what I love to do.
Ken Onion
I started the mid-tech trend to create a category of knives in between custom and production, and hopefully have created some clarity in the marketplace.
Ken Onion
I try to make the craft of utilizing a knife, mankind’s second oldest tool, as simple and easy as possible. Materials, form, balance and ergonomics are all part of the equation, but essentially it’s ease of use and utility that we’re after.
Ken Onion
I think one of the most exciting parts of knife design is the public reveal. You have a feeling but you just never know if you’re going to hear — “Wow, what a great knife,” or “What was he thinking?”
Ken Onion
It’s been a privilege to be a part of this (knife) industry, and I’ve been fortunate enough to not only make a living doing what I love, but to have had friends and mentors help me along the way.
Ken Onion
I try to look for new and different ways to interpret knives. There’s no shortage of knife makers and brands out there, so you’ve got to take a different approach to stand out.
Ken Onion
I wanted to make a knife as smooth as Stan’s (Fujisaka) or even smoother. I figured the only way I could even make it better was if it had an assist. So I had that word in my head when a friend came over to have a cam machined for her Harley. I put the concepts of “cam” and “assist” together and a light bulb went off.
Ken Onion
It’s hard to make something look really good and perform real well. My wife said, why can’t we make really sexy knives like the competitors do? I said because they won’t cut and they don’t stab.
Lynn Thompson
Fashions change, technology changes, materials change. All of that has an impact on what I do. Remember, my main focus is mass-production knives for an international audience. My knives are unashamedly tactical in nature; I find that what I do attracts a certain type of customer.
Lynn Thompson
I’m always interested in why a knife or a sword was designed the way it was. The truth is almost always function, performance and necessity based on circumstances and conditions of combat.
Lynn Thompson
Designing a knife can take years or it can take days. If inspiration strikes just right, it’s a wonderful thing. I often find myself constantly revisiting the design. Trying to make it better. Prototyping and re-working until I get something I like.
Lynn Thompson
The Tai-Pan is one of my all-time favorite designs. I tried so hard to make the best double edged dagger that I could. Even after all these years, I’m still not sure it can be improved upon.
Lynn Thompson
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